Increasing Wisdom Increases Pain
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You can talk about fighting for your rights
I don't care much for rights I'd rather have obligations
You can say you've been sold and you want back your gold
But you and I know your just a slave of your own temptations
You can't lie to me about His-story and Her-story
Or My-story Cause you know - I'm a witness

Long ago I held the law and you saw and you said
You'd rather pursue your own interests
You can say your a dove - a terrorist of love
But funny how you always exspect me to protect you
Instead of gratitude I get an attitude - You say i'm cruel
And I'm a bigger fool - Cause I even let you

And there's nothing new under the sun - it's all the same
Increasing wisdom - Increases pain

Well you can talk about unity and you and me and one nation of brotherhood
Well that's good but what exactly is the meaning of your mission
You say you want to right all the wrongs - you learned your protest songs
But was it really he or she or them or it who put you under these conditions

You talk about the new world order - You want to remove all the borders
Definitions and religions and then maybe you'll be satisfied
You want to give rights to everybody even those who don't give rights to others
You call them your brothers but the truth is they've really got you terrified

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Now the people of the book become the people of the checkbook
Blaming all their problems on the only one who really could have saved them
The tragedy my friend is what happens now happened then
Even so you don't want to know
You'd rather make the same mistakes - And pay for them

The ones who once revealed the invisible sadly become practitioners of ritual
Blaming the stick instead of seeing the hand that shakes it
Terrified of what the nations say - Instead of fearing the one to whome they pray
Blaming Him for the promise He keeps - While they continually break it

And in His anger he sent a King and in His wrath He took him away
Because we didn't want to listen to the words he had to say
So now were being sentenced
Divine glory must be revealed - Upon our flesh it will be sealed
Even among those who have not yet - Grasped the meaning of repentence

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